EC prepares Tk 8,000cr budget for EVMs

EC prepares Tk 8,000cr budget for EVMs

The Election Commission (EC) has taken a project to buy two lakh new Electric Voting Machines (EVMs) costing Tk 8,000 crore which will be used at 150 constituencies in the 12th parliamentary elections. According to the EC, each EVM machine will cost more than Tk 2.5 lakh. Apart from this, warehouses of 60-65 thousand square feet for storing these EVMs will be constructed in 10 regions under...

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